Landing Point · AU Australia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Bass Strait-1 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-17 through 2026-05-31 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 298.4 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 0.2 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 92.6 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 391.9 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 353.8 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 298.2 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 1 | 298.7 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 302.7 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 268.7 ms |
Sandy Point is a small township in south Gippsland, Victoria, situated near Wilsons Promontory in the southernmost reaches of mainland Australia. Despite its modest permanent population, Sandy Point holds a place in Australia's submarine cable geography as the landing point for the Bass Strait-1 cable. The presence of this cable reflects the township's coastal position at the edge of the Australian mainland, facing the waters of Bass Strait that separate Victoria from Tasmania.
One submarine cable lands at Sandy Point. Bass Strait-1 connects two Australian endpoints, making this a domestic inter-regional link rather than an international connection. The cable spans 241 kilometres, placing it well below the national average cable length of 6,213 kilometres recorded across Australia's submarine cable network. As a purely intra-national cable, Bass Strait-1 enables connectivity within the Australian landmass and its associated island state, forming a corridor across Bass Strait.
Bass Strait-1 is a 241-kilometre submarine cable that reached ready-for-service status in 1995, making it among the earliest submarine cables commissioned in Australia. Both of its endpoints are located in Australia, establishing a domestic link across the Bass Strait corridor. The cable connects Sandy Point on the Victorian mainland to another Australian landing point, providing a sub-sea route across one of the most frequently navigated stretches of water in southern Australia.
Within Australia's submarine cable landscape, Sandy Point ranks among the smaller landing points by cable count, hosting one cable compared to major hubs such as Sydney, NSW, which lands ten cables, and Darwin, NT, and Perth, WA, each with five. Sandy Point nonetheless sits alongside Melbourne, VIC, which lands three cables, as one of Victoria's active submarine cable termini. Its single-cable footprint places it in the upper 63 percent of Australia's 27 landing points when ranked by cable count.
Sandy Point functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub. Its sole connection, Bass Strait-1, serves a domestic purpose, linking the Victorian coast to another point within Australia across the Bass Strait. This positions Sandy Point as a contributor to intra-national submarine cable diversity in Victoria, complementing the broader international-facing infrastructure concentrated at larger landing points elsewhere in the country.
The existence of a dedicated submarine cable landing at a township of Sandy Point's scale illustrates how domestic geographic barriers — in this case the open waters of Bass Strait — can drive submarine cable deployment independent of international traffic demands. Within Australia's broader submarine cable graph, Sandy Point represents a geographically distinct Victorian terminus serving a specific cross-strait corridor.
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